Since the early 1800s, practitioners of organic chemistry have been fascinated with a group of plant-derived compounds called "alkaloids." Alkaloids contain at least one nitrogen atom among other ...

Scientists have isolated a novel alkaloid from the venom of the scorpion Megacormus gertschi, 3.5-4 cm in length. Scorpion venom packs more than a painful sting.

HEIKKI PYYSALO, CARL-JOHAN WIDÉN, CORNELIS A. SALEMINK, EVA LEWING, ARNE ROUSI, ARJA OJALA, Interspecific hybridization in Papaver. 2. Alkaloid contents of P. somniferum and species of the section ...

Research from all publishers Recent developments in the total synthesis of Daphniphyllum alkaloids have focused on enantioselective approaches and the efficient construction of highly congested ...

THE clinical observations of Moir (Brit. Med. J., i, 1119; 1932), that aqueous extracts of ergot are more effective in producing the uterine contractions to which this drug owes its medicinal use ...